this is an absolute delight to be in yakima. this is a special place in my life. we made our first home here. this is the place i raised hay and raised three boys to a right and honorable manhood. this is where i learned to prosecute drunk drivers and the place where i first thought of community and education by building and new schools in the high school where we had some great teachers today. as is the place where i learned how to build a consensus to help our state and nation move forward. having success in the yakima river area so that we can have water for agriculture and make sure that orchards can function. these are things i'm going to take to make sure that my vision of economic growth can span across the state and it will be a good thing. >> moderator: thank you very much. let's begin with a question. we do want to know that note that we had a bit of a technical problem with rob mckenna's microphone. we will try to fix it as soon as possible. i think that the audio guy was thrown by the spanish language spoken there. here we go. we need to fix the microp